On 3/30/22 21:12, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> On Mar 30, 2022, at 8:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I think this means that its old Perl version misinterprets
>>> use parent -norequire, qw(PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster);
>>> as a request to include "parent.pm". Is there a more
>>> backwards-compatible way to spell that?
>> Not that I know of. Googling tells me it was a core module from 5.10.1. I can revert tomorrow if necessary :-(
I must have been half asleep when I posted this.
There are three ways out of this that I can see:
. carry a copy of parent.pm in src/test/perl (It's very small)
. use the older and heavier 'base' module which goes back to 5.004, and
does much the same thing (and a lot more)
. just do directly what parent.pm's import() does, as in the attached,
which I have tested down to version 10.
On the whole I think I prefer the last.
cheers
andrew
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